by Archie L. Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis Attention, Americans, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, MAGA, NON MAGA, informed, uninformed voters, nonvoters and anybody not mentioned with a heart beat. “We’ve […]
Archives for February 21, 2025
Oppose getting rid of FDIC
by Dana Henricks, Florence Remember that scene in the Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life”where everyone in Bedford Falls freaks out from rumors of a bank run and rushes to […]
Why no positive coverage?
by Dallas Erickson, Stevensville It has been interesting to see how you, the local media, cover Harris Himes and his sheltering of people who would probably be homeless without his […]
The Lab and NIH funding
by John Kochis, Hamilton Recently, it has come to my attention that funding will be cut for NIH impacting our lab. I find this deeply worrisome. The lab has been […]
Trump Effect 2
by Linda Schmitt, Corvallis Everything we always wished for: takeover of Gaza, Executive Order banning Paper Straws, firing 1000 US Park Service people and an unknown number of BLM, Forest […]
Not an audit, a takeover
by Marilyn Wolff, Stevensville Musk owns six companies including Space X, Tesla and X (formerly Twitter). He got $3.8 billion in US government contracts in 2024. Eleven federal agencies have […]
Arithmetic vs. MAGA
by Bill Jones, Stevensville Richard Parker wrote in his January 15 letter that Jerry Esmay had recently established and Parker agreed that “smart Americans” voted “overwhelmingly” for Trump. While many […]
Reducing fire risk is complicated
by Skip Kowalski and Kirk Thompson, co-chairs, Bitterroot Forest Collaborative We’ve received some criticism for our Letter to the Editor (LTE) printed in February 5th’s Bitterroot Star, specifically the perceived inference that if […]
